Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof. - Jed Rubenfeld

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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

Jed Rubenfeld

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

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If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

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A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

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But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

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What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

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